what are you doing it's breakfast what a weird intro welcome to another day bike packing spain
that thing that was in chris's mouth is how we get uh all the riding footage
well most of the riding footage is the gopro you have to mould it to your teeth
pro standard grill mount you're still moulding
i know it's coming some kind of cast we're talking about some kind of cuss
you cut me because i've got less stuff than you i was just gonna point out to the viewers
how much easier it is and quicker for me to pack i'm gonna put something in
here is that my voice is that that's not my voice just put this jersey on really slowly
right back on the road i think this is day four we are riding
fully for a national park all day and our destination is almeria oh i'm stopping in alberia
you go to burger king getting a vegan burger if they have one they do yeah
hey look at igloo how do i keep it so uh so icy winter oh yeah isn't it
what do we do you always have to be careful with dogs like that that are not this bike packing tips
did they dogs not with people because they chase but quite often will chase bicycles
my biggest tip squirt the [ __ ] i go past really slow because it stops giving that
incentive to chase so there's pretty much one big climb today and it's immediately
out of the start so once this is over you get a nice big descent and then a chill
rest of the day but currently how is this how are people riding around in balaclavas
and like winter tights and everything weirdly enough this on uh google maps the route we're
going today is a national park which is usually represented by green but it's all brown so i'm
guessing that means it's desert so this in the summer will be completely barren barely
seen any cars thoroughly recommend riding here of course now i've said that there is a van behind us
hello see your plastic but when the cars do come past they are spanish and they're very friendly
oh there's a dog in that one how is this day four i feel like we've been on the road for two weeks
so i think it's fair to say even if you're not into your cycling coming here south coast to spain
at this time of year is the time to do it we've met a few people who are just on holiday like
caravanning and just enjoying like you know like normal holidays like people do without bikes
and they agree this is the best time of year to come yet loads of german people loads of brits
loads of dutch people a few of them were saying they've been here in the summer
and it's just not worth coming because it's so busy the roads here will be
chock about with traffic so it's just not worth it there is a little bit of a struggle to find
in places that are open to eating um you know fairly limited options particularly in that
place we stayed in last night where there was only seafood we ended up eating a lot of bread
you got a great salad didn't you did you like it it was um a very strong
cheese statement of the century i had one mouthful and i felt sick for half an hour this cheese
that i think probably could have killed half of all the lactose intolerant people in the world
great
these local guys seem happy to uh share the effort did a bit on our wheel now we're doing a bit on
their will socks over warmers is that the thing in spain so i can confirm riding from alicante south
is definitely more rural than going from alicante north which is the previous bike packing trip we
did when we came to spain having said that this is definitely harder riding than going north so
again it's another reason why this trip is probably a good example of something which
is just a level up from the previous one even though we're doing quite short days at the moment
because of the climbing and how rural the area is and the wind
it does add up to be um a challenge so so far i'd recommend it's fun it's nice how
much scenery has changed since we left alicante isn't it i'd bonkers temperature-wise kind of what
you're seeing the landscape was much more moroccan you know realistically with what in a car three
four hours away from alicante maybe almeria malaga they're bigger towns you know much more touristy
so it'll feel again quite a bit like i've got a holiday again yeah we've got a hyundai again
when she came on by that night
that was a river on my map our ride's been ruined by those those nice guys giving us a wheel
being all nice and letting us draft them all the way to almeria so we're here way too early
we've basically done we've what we got after this 20k yep
that was nice guys it's not and it's not even lunchtime according to spain time yet yeah
well anything a bit open of course i am joking they were very very lovely guys
and uh had a little sprint with them so unlike the uk they're very receptive to people
like other people on bikes sitting on the wheel i'd usually be polite in the uk and not jump on
people's wheels that you don't know but here it's kind of like yeah the more the merrier i
would say one thing is a little bit different here because the standard of riding is higher yes so
your local club riders all seem to be really up to scratch all their um throwing offs and half
wheeling and just general road etiquette seems to be of a slightly higher standard not that it's bad
in the uk and it's definitely always improving but yeah here in particular cycling is ingrained
in their culture now let's find some lunch is it one way yeah no there's an arrow put in that way
some of you guys are lying in the comments i've done a scientifical experiment and that
experiment was seeing at what speed do i actually spin out my gearing as
touched on in other videos a one by with 11 42. i saw some comments from you guys
saying that you were regularly spinning out on the flat that gear ratio regularly
either you are lying or you are peter sagan to spin out that gear ratio i was going 66 k's an
hour on the descents today 66 k's an hour is fast like really fast the question is is what
cadence they're classing is spinning out okay then you're lying you're picking a cigar or you need to
work on your cane because whatever you say 66 k's an hour is faster than you're doing on the flat
most of the time definitely if you're doing a race and the peloton's like running away from
you and you need the extra speed on a descent you can see why having like a 5311 or something
massive really does help but for everyday riding that it's fine but anyway thanks peters again
for watching my videos and uh commenting and subscribing it's our food coming to me
why were you in there for 20 minutes looking for those look at these that corridor goes on
for 15 minutes we are now in um the town we're not actually staying in almeria we're staying in
the next town along um something here because we thought it would be a little bit smaller a
bit nicer to ride out of tomorrow and it split up the days better as well so we are now here
and total direct energy astana and what was the other thing
guys are also staying here so that bodes well for tomorrow's ride
and our hotel yeah saw the mechanic from astana how's that nice wrap he said
hey just in case anyone was wondering what these orange things are on my tail fin there for that
after australia where i had these straps uh black diamond straps not the same as bole straps which
a lot of people use they're slightly different oil while they so the difference is these are
more grippy what straps did you take to australia nothing bungee cords oh yeah do you remember yeah
got them from the pound shop i've seen the sheriff's side she upgraded us got cowboy room
for the best bit do you think team astana have got cowboy rooms as well they've only got bunk
beds we've been trying to figure out why they're here we're guessing it must be a race but there's
one in like the tour of valencia is that what it's called there's a one day race that finishes in
cartagena which is the town that we were in like two days ago but direct energy on on that list
so it must be a different event or they're doing a really late season training camp so
we will see i actually know some of the people at the team could ask oh this is a good bed